Where's Wally

'Look in the mirror' is what my brother might say to me - thanks James! 

You may remember in my first blog I was talking about my Christmas stocking list and that I put a Where's Wally book on there, but I didn't get one! I wasn't too bothered as it was just my childish side coming out really but they are so awesome!

Well anyway, one of my friends, Moritz, was coming from Germany for a weekend away and after giving me the most amazing bag ever of assorted haribo (most that are not available in the UK) he said 'I saw you blog and I couldn't resist' and then he handed me a waterstones bag. I was very intrigued as to what it would be as I could not remember much that I have actually written on here so obviously I took the book out the bag. I was so happy!! Literally looked like this :O except not sideways of course!

We sat there for ages just looking through the book trying to find all the different things in all the scenes and my sister joined us in the search too! It was so good, some of them are so tiny that they are so difficult to see - but obviously that is the idea! We got to the last page and there were probably over 100 Wallies on there and the description says something about Wally losing his shoe. So basically you have to look for the Wally with a red and white stripy sock on! I just thought 'how the hell are we ever going to find that, there are too many Wallies'

We spent ages looking for this one Wally but then decided to go out instead! However, the next morning (I think) that Moritz and I were looking through the book I FOUND HIM!!! I was so pleased - I realise this may seem sad by to be honest, I don't care because Where's Wally is amazing! 

We then turned that page and then there is check lists for more and more things to find in each scene and in the corner is says that there is a Wally Watcher (a Wally kid basically) that has lost to bobble on it's hat, can you find the Wally Watcher with the missing bobble, and find the bobble? Moritz said something like 'Oh dear, why did you read that out' hahaha!! 

We couldn't find it while he was here but yesterday when I was looking though it after dinner I found it! I was sort of thinking 'no I can't have found it, I must be wrong' so I searched for the bobble on the same page and FOUND IT!! I was so happy as I honestly thought that it was impossible haha!!

Basically- Where's Wally is amazing, for ANY age! I love it so much and it will keep me amused for ages! Thank you so much Moritz!

Now blog off ;) (Okay I know that was a crap joke but still it made me smile and I hope it made you smile too)

STOP!

Well hello there :)

This is another one of my driving blogs as I just got back from my lesson and thought that I would share, just to be nice :) 

We had a quick drive on the dual carriage way on the way to where we would be doing the cross roads, one way road and angled turnings. This time I felt a bit more confident on the road as I it was nice and light (on the way) and also I was surprisingly not bothered about going 70mph, so I felt quite a lot more confident this time as I really did not like them the last time I drove on them! 

We did all the crossroads, one way roads and angled turnings and then we drove to a quiet road where my instructor told me about emergency stops and I admit, I was a bit scared. But anyway, he talked me through how to do and the signal that they give to tell you to stop. He told me that when he was learning to drive the instructor used to literally bang their clip boards on the dashboard! I think that would just make me jump, so I'm glad they have changed that now! They now look around, put there hand up and then when they want us to stop they put they hand forward quickly and say 'STOP!' - much better. 

We switched places in the car so he was driving so he could could give me an example of what to do. He got to 20mph on the road and then did the emergency stop. It was obviously quite abrupt but it just kind of made me giggle, which is obviously better than being scared. He then gave me a second example just to see if I noticed a difference from last time as he had deliberately done it so that the ABS would kick in too so it didn't feel so smooth. I was quite pleased because I realised, yay!

Then it was my turn... dun dun daaaa! First we just sat in the car with it in neutral and with the hand break on and then he did the hand thing and said 'STOP' and... I missed the brake pedal a bit hahaha! Glad it was the test run. The second time I got it though, yay! 

Then it was time for the real thing so I started the car and got it to 20mph, he did the hand thing etc and I stopped the car. It was ok but the stop was not quite quick enough so we did it again and it was much better but we sort of stopped and then I tool one hand of the wheel and said 'was that ok? oh crap I have to put the hand brake and that on' just as he was pointing at the handbrake! It was rather funny, I can be so blonde sometimes. It literally just slipped my mind! 

Then I drove back home on the dual carriage way, missing my turning on the round about without even realising, but we got there in the end. Well, I've got to make something funny out of driving, right? 

Hopefully we won't be doing the emergency stop in 2 weeks time on the Tuesday as I will have a cake for my friends Amy's birthday and I wouldn't be too happy if I were to mess up the cake and have to give it to her if it were spattered and smushed to the side of the tin it is in! Hopefully that won't happen but, Amy, I apologise in advance in case that does happen :)

Bye for now :)

SEAGULLS!

I am sitting in the IB centre - trying to do my work! And there are 2 seagulls outside the back window tapping their feet quickly on the ground so that the worms or bugs or whatever come up from the earth because they think it is raining!
I keep just stopping and staring at them but they have gone now :( I wish my camera had batteries in it that worked (yes, James, that was a little dig at you for giving me dead batteries you FOOL!)

Colin!!

This morning I thought my day would be very boring and drag on FOREVER but luckily I was wrong as it ended up being really funny! 

This morning I was sitting in the common room practically falling asleep and dreaming of being  at home back in my nice warm bed, not to be disturbed for at least 4 hours! I was wondering how the hell I would manage to survive French without falling asleep. Although the incentive was that if I did I would end up having my head chopped off by my teacher... she would have gone absolutely ballistic! I have no idea how, but I did end up feeling quite awake and not really feeling tired at all - this was quite surprising as I honestly felt like a zombie in the morning. 

Anyway, after French I had a free - yay! I was looking forward to my free as I would just be able to do what I wanted as I was planning on doing whatever French homework that I got given in the previous lesson - luckily we got nothing that I could do, as the person I needed was busy. Shame, that means I would have to sit in the common room, talk and play games! 

My friend, Dan, was also on a free too so he came and sat in the common room with me and after talking for a while, and letting Arthur borrow my red pen so he could draw a heart on his hand, we thought it would be fun to play squares - so we did. We had a 10 by 10 grid (I know that's not important, but still) and Dan decided after a while that it would be fun to do it in the shape of a staircase - his fun didn't do him much good... hehe! I was very tactical with my placing of my lines but Dan really didn't have much of a clue (sorry Dan, but you know it's true). Anyway, I managed to get 80 squares, whereas Dan managed to get 20 - woo! 

After that we were sitting around trying to thinking of games to play. Dan suggested hide and seek (obviously joking) but I didn't really fancy hiding in the one place there was to hide - the bin! Yuck! Then Dan suggested the game where we write a line of a story each but aren't allowed to see what the other person had written but then we realised that it really wouldn't work as it would make no sense whatsoever! So I suggested that one person writes a little bit and puts something like 'so, after or then' at the end of there section so the next person had to carry it on! 

We decided that this would be quite a fun game so we started off writing our story. It ended up being rather funny but I won't write it out on here as some parts aren't exactly suitable :)

A little summary of the amazing story:

To start of with Dan is skipping through a field with his lover when a giant spotted dinosaur eats his lover, Dan cries and gets mugged, he meets a big talking banana called Colin, who then runs off after I tell him that Dan has a girlfriend and then a giant monkey tried to eat his head. Dan throws the monkey and helps up Colin, they dance and sing to the YMCA while I play the bango in a tree and then later they have a bunch of baby bananas. A year later they return with their children but the children, and Colin, get eaten by the monkey! Dan goes back to Amy but then the monkey comes for them again and eats Amy! 

We left it with the line 'Could Dan's life get any better...?' this way we can write a sequel if we wish. Amy has demanded that she will become a ghost in the next one... pfft! We shall see... not making any promises :P 

Even my English lesson was funny! Surprise, I know! We are reading a VERY strange book called 'Perfume' and the teacher was asking us whether in certain areas it had sexual references and yes... it does! He talks about a 'volcanic eruption' and 'enjoying himself' so me and my partner Maddy were making lots of jokes out of the references, which was amusing to say the least. Something my English teacher said had some kind of sexual reference without her meaning to so I whispered to Maddy 'that's what Grenouille said' so we were having a good laugh over it all! I usually really hate English but today it was fun :)

So yes, my day consisted of squares, talking bananas, monkeys, dinosaurs and innuendos - good day I think :)

Driving Update

I have had about 5 lessons now so I thought I would share some of the interesting or funny things that might have happened along the way:

• Today, I was driving along and then a bus started coming towards me and I was thinking 'oh crap, I won't fit through that gap what the hell do I do!!' I was a little temped to just close my eyes and hope for the best but luckily I didn't! I pulled over a little bit to the left as my instructor told me and he helped me to stop it in time... phew. 

• Another one from today. I am learning to drive in a petrol car and we had pulled over to have a chat about something else and clean the back windscreen. Anyway, when I went to pull away I thought I had put it in 1st gear so I started to pull away, I was wondering why the car was shaking so much but I carried on very slowly anyway and once I had actually got on my way again I asked my instructor why the car was shaking so much and he said I had accidentally put the car in 3rd gear but he was amazed that I actually managed to get away with doing that in 3rd gear because usually the car would have stalled. 

•  I drove myself to school the other day which was quite good! My leg ached a teeny bit after as usual and as it was in the morning I was a little bit tired but the lesson went well, although I stalled quite a few times as we were doing LOTS of roundabouts for the first time, and they are a little bit scary!

•  I have to admit whenever I see a car stop at a junction to either side of me it does give me a bit of a shock and buses scare me too! They are too big and take up too much of the road!

• I have had a little habit of leaving my indicator on when it doesn't cancel it's self out. I quite like the noise actually and I just sort of block it out :) But I am glad the say that I am improving on this as I now remember to turn it off more often that not! 

• You might know that I am the official cake makes for my friends' birthdays. In a few weeks time it is my friend Amy's birthday and I have already promised her a cake! I have got a driving lesson in the morning before I actually need to be in school so I will be driving myself, and the cake, to school! I said to my friend that she can judge how good my driving is by the state of the cake... hopefully we won't start on emergency stops on that lesson!

Woodlice

I know it sounds like a bit of an odd topic for a blog but I just thought I would write one in memory of the woodlouse I accidentally killed in my biology experiment yesterday... I know - evil!

We were doing an experiment which involved putting some woodlice in a choice tube (a hollow T-shaped tube) and letting it crawl the section where it then decides whether to go into the dark section or the light section. We started off with 4 woodlice but one was too fat for the tube so we disregarded it and gave it to someone else.

I appologise to all the woodlice lovers but they arn't exactly the most intelligent of all insects. One of them decided it would be a smart idea to go into the light section (lit by a lamp). Now this section was not exactly the coolest of sections and it seemed that it was probably frying in there as it promptly decided to try and reverse... and failed.Don't worry, I did save it by tipping the tube - I'm nice really!

But in another incident I was tipping the 3 woodlice out of the tube but none of them seemed to be falling out so I decided to tap it against the table but unfortunately just as I was hitting the tube on the table, one feel out and I ended up stabbing it :S I'm sorry!!

R.I.P woodlouse!

Baby Styling!

The electronic baby is officially off... woo! I enjoyed being auntie, apart from rocking it for half an hour!!!

Anyway, I decided the baby need a bit of styling so I thought I would share some pictures :)

 Baby wanted to try and feed herself - suits us! Clever baby, takes after it's auntie ;)

 The baby styling some gold ear muffs, it's all the range at the moment!

And finally, the baby styling a woolly hat, big black glasses whilst having a nice relax with a bottle of milk!

My First Roast Dinner

Not the first one I have eaten, after all... I am English. That would have been a crime otherwise!

No, it was the first time I had EVER made a roast dinner. I have watched them being made my mum or step dad but never actually done it myself!

My mum and step dad had gone out during the afternoon and they got caught up with doing something while they were out so my step dad texted me asking if I could cook the dinner. Immediately I was like ah...crap! I have never cooked a roast before.. this could be fun!
So I texted back and then he rang with some instructions on what to do... yay! To make this even more challenging my sister, Zoe, was still sleeping and therefore I had to also look after the electronic baby (luckily it slept the while time) so I could wake Zoe up if it cried so she could care for it. (It stayed asleep the whole time though so Zoe got to sleep longer.)

Anyway, the outcome of the dinner was pretty damn awesome... if I do say so myself! It is actually making me feel hungry thinking about it! I was really pleased with my potatoes because I parboiled them until they were just a little soft, then beat them in the pan a little bit by shaking it so the outside goes all fluffy and then putting them in the pan with the hot oil and coating them in it! They tasted rather nice :) I was really pleased as I hadn't done this before!

I think I might ask to cook to roast again some time... we shall see! I enjoyed it anyway :) (apart from all the peeling - that's just tedious)

I really should have taken a picture but never mind... that probably would have been a bit sad of me!

Babysitting

As suspected my sister, Zoe had a bit of a crap night sleep last night as the baby cried a lot and also even when it wasn't crying it went to sleep and makes breathing sounds which was also very irritating and stopped her sleeping much!

She decided this morning that she would cut off her arm band and just give me the chiming thing so that we didn't have to take it to physio as it would be embarrassing so I am currently babysitting! I have just had to change it's nappy, feed it for 10 minutes and change it's nappy, all in the space of 15 minutes - this baby is full of it! It was lucky we did this as there would be no room in the doctory place anyway!!

But still, I think I am making a good auntie! Although, I don't like the way it stares at me - it looks like it wants to kill me but perhaps that just because it's plastic and can't move! But I do like the cooing sound it makes once Zoe is done caring with it because it is really cute!

Last night, before I went to bed, Zoe sent me a message on msn telling me it was crying so I went and sat with her while she cared for it - it wanted burping! It then cried again very quickly after that but Zoe was desperate for the toilet so I said I would do it! It took... FOREVER! The rocking and burping sound is the same so I did both at the same because neither of us could work out which it was that it wanted! After 30 minutes of rocking and patting it's back it cooed - it was the rocking it wanted after all! But constantly through those 30 minutes Zoe was laying on her bed and telling it to shut up! I think it went to sleep after that though but then work her up at 4ish and needed caring twice and then once again at 7ish because it needed caring for 3 times.

'ALAN'

I remembered seeing this video a while ago and showed it to be Granddad the other day as I had suddenly remembered about it so I thought I would share it as I think it is quite funny and very clever! I particularly like the Giraffes.

I can't do my homework...

Yesterday Amy decided she would sit on my homework... I don't mind, it wasn't interesting anyway!

Amy is currently playing the game where she scratches my bedroom door, I open it, she runs away, I close the door and then it starts over again... fun :) 

I'm an auntie! :)

... to an electronic baby. But nevertheless, I am an auntie!
So my sister, Zoe, brought home the electronic baby from school today to have over the weekend. It's one of the ones where you have to feed it, change it's nappy, burp it, rock it and support it's head!

Not one of these ridiculous ones from my school where you have to stick a plastic key in it's back, turn it, and wait for it to coo. Very realistic - not! I mean it doesn't really teach you much about what you have to do for a baby but never mind it was a bit of fun and I quite enjoyed it!

Zoe is the last person in the class to have it for the first time but one of her friends asked for it again so she was going to have it on a harder setting! However... Zoe and her friend's might have been mixed up as Zoe's has cried 5 times between 8 and 9 and her friend's has only cried 3 times since she got it! By the last time Zoe was getting a bit annoyed so she made it chime and then handed me the baby and the bottle... yay! I quite enjoyed sitting with it on my lap, resting it's head on my knee and holding the bottle to it's mouth.

I think Zoe is in for a bit of a sleepless night if that happens later but hopefully it won't be too bad but I have told her that if she is really struggling she can come and wake me up so I can sit with her or something! I'm such a loving sister. I also have to go with her to her physio appointment tomorrow to babysit just in case it goes off there so that should be fun... babysitting a plastic baby...

I reckon I would make a good auntie actually! AND my friend Amy says that when she has children then I can be the fairy godmother!!!! How exciting! I reckon I'd be the best... I'd even buy a tutu, crown and a wand so I could really play the part properly! I reckon I'd look pretty good ;)

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!! It is now officially 1/1/11 and I wish you all the best for 2011!

I do feel a little sad that 2010 is over, particularly as we won't see December for another 12 months :( it's one of my favourite months as I do love Christmas time and of course it is my birthday! However, when in the beginning months of the year there could be hope for more snow... that would be quite nice, although others might disagree.

Also, we will slowly get closer to summer, which means just one thing... 

 BEEEEEEAAAAAACCCCHHHH

My favourite place, I actually love it! In the summer I spend as much time possible down the beach, in the sea, just generally loving life. In 2010 I managed to get into the sea for the first time in April... absolutely freezing but it was good. Just thinking about this is making me excited for summer actually!

Now some people might say that it is a little bit weird as I love the summer so much, but I also love the snow to... now of course these 2 do not mix one bit, but never mind I think I can like both.

I just thought I would share a few of my highlights of 2010:

• My extra long summer holiday due to GCSEs :)
• The amount of snow we have had recently! AMAZING
• Getting my GCSE results
• Starting driving - I know that is recent but I really do love it!
• Meeting new people
• The trip to Paris - SO GOOD!
• And many many more, I couldn't possibly tell you them all, the list is too long!

I hope that 2011 will be another good year and I have my personal wishes about what I would like to happen this year, but I won't share them as I'd like them to some true - supposedly they come true more often if you keep them to yourself... so I will.